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Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’

Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.

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Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward

An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

From restaurant guides to payments, here’s how TikTok is building a super app

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth

Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry

I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.

The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.

Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s

Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?

Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged

A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.

The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.

The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?

Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out

London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists

Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan

How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot

Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up

The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.

Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death

The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.

Smear Campaign Towards GrapheneOS

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Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem

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A brief history of just-in-time (2003)

When electric cars were for women

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Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs

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